Script ran in serial, creating 1 VM on 1 LUN, and after that’s done moving on to the next VM on the same LUN, then moving on to the next LUN.

Each LUN is configured as an IOPS (2+1) LUN. So, every write process is writing to 3 disks out of the array 24 total disks (whereas a read process reads from 2 disks in the LUN). Additional throughput is likely to be achieved by testing scenarios where we’re writing to all 8 LUNs simultaneously hitting 18 of the array disks at the same time.

Network bandwidth utilization is at about 68.2% capacity of the 10 Gbps Ethernet used in this test. for the next test (in parallel) I will use NIC teams to provide 20 Gbps Ethernet bandwidth

Storage nodes’ CPU utilization was at around 50% in this test, which is not a bottleneck.

This test is essentially a disk copy test and not a Hyper-V virtual machine performance test. Hyper-V testing with Gridstore will be shown in a future post.